American Graffiti and the lasting impact of nostalgia on cinema

After his dystopian sci-fi THX 1138 failed at the box office, George Lucas was challenged by his friend Francis Ford Coppola to write a film that would appeal to mainstream audiences. Lucas leapt at the proposition, writing a coming-of-age story about four teenagers on the last day of summer in 1962. The script had autobiographical […]

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Do We Want to Eat the Rich, or Dress Like Them?

Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. This summer, it seems, everyone wants to be rich. We’re idolizing the “stealth wealth” of the characters on Succession, following the fashion statements from Gwyneth Paltrow’s ski trial, aspiring to emulate so-called “old money” style (a designation so malleable, it’s recently […]

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Manifest’s Season 4, Part 2 Finale Reveals What Happens on the Death Date

Spoilers below. Flight 828 has reached its final destination. In the series finale of the NBC-turned-Netflix supernatural drama Manifest, the passengers of the infamous flight, who inexplicably disappeared for five-and-a-half years during a routine trip from Jamaica to New York on April 7, 2013, faced their final judgment in the eyes of the Divine Consciousness […]

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TikTok Star Dylan Mulvaney’s Tiffany Necklace Is a Gift to Her Younger Self

Spiros Halaris When the pandemic hit and Dylan Mulvaney lost her job touring with the musical Book of Mormon, she turned to the nation’s arguably biggest stage: TikTok. Now, Mulvaney has become one of the platform’s viral stars, garnering eight million followers with her series, “Days of Girlhood,” where she makes videos highlighting her journey […]

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